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Keeping your blog from being hacked

Sep 07, 2006 No Comments »

Darren’s ProBlogger.net was recently hacked and with growing popularity of some blogs, more and more such incidents are bound to happen. You can take the following steps to keep your blog from being hacked to a great extent:

• Host your blog with a known hosting company as it ensures proper security.
• Keep your passwords safe
• Don’t use predictable passwords
• Keep updating your blog management software (WordPress.org, etc.) as with every new release they try to plug the old security holes
• Keep regular backups

Hacking is an inescapable reality but by taking the above mentioned steps you can keep the damage to its minimum.

Building a blog audience

Sep 06, 2006 2 Comments »

Building a vibrant blog audience is not as difficult as it seems and not as easy as it seems, too. To be frank, this is a subject that has the potency to make or break your blogging efforts because after all, what’s the use of writing everyday on your blog if not many people can find your postings?

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Does putting Technorati and other tags on your blog help

Sep 04, 2006 5 Comments »

Right now I have no idea. On Google I was looking for a plugin to add Technorati tags to individual posts. Then it came to my mind, I haven’t read much on why do people put such tags on their blogs and websites?

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5 steps to writing effective headlines

Sep 03, 2006 No Comments »

Writing effective headlines is a hot topic and it should be. Headlines represent the gist of what you want to convey. Your headlines basically solve three purposes:

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My thoughts on social media optimization

Sep 03, 2006 No Comments »

I read Rohit Bhargava’s post — 5 Rules of Social Media Optimization (SMO) – a long time back and ever since then I’ve been planning to write on this subject. This topic got me thinking because without coining it, I’ve been thinking about the same thing. There is a client of mine (we’ve turned partners and friends now, sort of) who is always talking about maintaining multiple streams of income and resources. Like him, I too believe we should never depend on one particular resource when it comes to sustaining our lives and businesses. Right now most of us depend a lot on traffic from search engines, particularly Google. Now, I prefer Google over the other search engines, but the guys over there can drop your website from their results the moment they feel like, and there rarely is a redress.

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